Huh, TIL that’s still possible. Wasn’t in my case at the time.

I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.

To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.

This is such an incredible write up of something I’ve never even considered to exist. Thank you!

I’d love to have things like that in a form of a post at !graybeard@lemmy.cafe

That’s not really the case. Have a look at AUR or GURU repo - most proprietary software is installed by simply applying the same steps an apt, dnf, whathaveyou package manager would.

Thank you very much!

Wait, what? That’s so cool! Care to share somewhere I can start looking into this?

I don’t know the size in bytes, haven’t cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.

I’m referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don’t use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.

I run Gentoo.

It’s made my fundamentals stronger.

It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

Network? That’s a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

It was meant as a tongue in cheek, not a dig at you :)

I think you missing just a few zeroes there.

I actually think you do not, in fact, know enough. VPN does not care about layer 7. Having some proxy forcefully rewrite random domain names will immediately lead to redirect loops and will be disabled that same day because everyone will be screaming “internet no worky”.

I don’t think it works the way you think it does.

For those curious - it’s engine-x.

Used systemd for years; realistically my first init.

Switched to Gentoo.

Switched to OpenRC.

Lost logs at work on a server.

Some small inconveniences show up on systemd.

Yea, systemd is not that great.

There are people saying they don’t want to care about an init system, but it’s the same attitude as of those who don’t care about what car they drive. Yes, it gets the job done, but that’s not good enough for me.

I want the job done properly.

Gentoo/Arch guy checking in. It’s more about having fewer codepaths to go wrong after some update. At least in my case.

I’m no dev, but would you consider writing up in detail the features/behaviour you’re missing on libreoffice issue tracker?

A couple things - every jump like that in resolution is about a 10% increase in size at the source level. So 2K is ~250GB, 4K is ~275GB. Haven’t had to deal with 8K myself, yet, but it would be at ~300GB. And then you compress all that for placea like netflix and the size goes down drastically. Add to that codec improvements over time (like x264 -> x265) and you might actually end up with an identical size compressed while carrying 4x more pixels.

HDMI is digital. It doesn’t start failing because of increased bandwidth; there’s nothing consumable. It either works or it doesn’t.

Small tech social media is just as bad at sucking all that time up. Ask me how I know :(

Regarding link saturation - have you tried tc/wondershaper? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28198/how-to-limit-network-bandwidth#28203

Iptables commands - that was needed at the very launch of wg, I’ve not had to deal with it for some time now.

Personal/commercial use - I’m on a completely opposite side. It’s perfect for personal use, but its lack of dhcp support makes me question its capability in a commercial setting. Many providers offer it, so clearly that’s not an insurmountable task, but I’m still curious how they sort out their backend.